Meaning and Origin of: Wells

Wells is of Old English origin and means "From the springs."

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Inquisitive
  • Old English : From the springs

Boy name variations

Walsh
Walls
Welce
Welch
Welsh
Welles
Weller
Welborne
Welby
Weldon
Welford
Welton

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of several places named with the plural of Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or a topopgraphical name from this word (in its plural form), for example Wells in Somerset or Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk.
  • Translation of French Dupuis or any of its variants.
  • One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.